"Coach Li, I've been selected! I've been selected by the national team!" Under Zhu Feng's excited expression, his eyes sparkled even more.
Zhu Feng fulfilled the dream of three generations of his family and finally entered the national team.
As a newly selected athlete for the national team, Zhu Feng can only stay in the second team of the national team. If he wants to enter the first team, Zhu Feng needs to work harder.
The national table tennis team has an internal promotion and relegation trial. The trials are participated by the bottom players of the first team and the top players of the second team. The competition adopts a large-circle method and is ranked according to points.
Players with higher final points rankings, if they were originally on the first team, can remain in the first team; if they were originally on the second team, they can be promoted to the first team.
Players with lower points rankings, if they were originally players on the first team, will be demoted to the second team; if they were originally players on the second team, they can only stay on the second team.
In this set of promotion and relegation rules, only the lower-ranked athletes of a team need to participate in promotion and relegation matches to work hard to stay in the same team. The world champions we are familiar with are all ranked high in the first team. , they naturally don’t have to participate in the promotion and relegation matches.
Among the second team, only the top ranked ones are eligible to participate in the promotion and relegation matches, so those who are not good enough, or are newcomers who have just joined the second team, are not even qualified to participate in the promotion and relegation matches.
For example, Zhu Feng must stay in the second team for at least a period of time. Through various competitions and round-robin matches within the team, he can continuously improve his ranking in the team and be at the forefront of the second team before he has the opportunity to participate in promotion. Level competition and get a chance to join the first team.
And the competition between the second team is very fierce. In the first team, if the performance is not good, they will be demoted to the second team at most, but in the second team, if the athletes do not perform well, they will be directly eliminated from the national team.
After an athlete enters the national table tennis team, if he can be promoted to the first team within two years, he is considered a genius and deserves to be vigorously cultivated by the national team. And those who joined the second team of the national table tennis team at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and those who were able to join the first team at the age of sixteen, will all grow up to be world champions in the future, and even some will lead the rulers of an era.
In terms of age, Zhu Feng has no advantage. He is already 20 years old and has just entered the second team. In the national table tennis team, there are also many people who entered the first team before the age of 18. There are many people who are more talented than Zhu Feng.
In the table tennis team of Hanbei Province, Zhu Feng is the well-deserved "big brother", but in the national table tennis team, Zhu Feng is just the younger brother ranked at the bottom. This kind of change in status will make people feel at a loss, and may even make a person decadent from now on.
Dai Li didn't know if Zhu Feng could adapt to this change in status. If Zhu Feng couldn't adapt, it might not be long before he would be eliminated from the national team.
Looking at Zhu Feng's leaving figure, Li Dai suddenly felt an inexplicable feeling of melancholy in his heart.
Zhu Feng realized his dream, but at the same time he also encountered greater challenges in life. His future career path will be several times more difficult than it is now.
The next second, Dai Li suddenly thought of himself.
The national table tennis team is also a strange place and a strange environment for Li Dai. It is not a new challenge for him. Moreover, the national table tennis team is completely different from the national track and field team. For the national track and field team, Li Dai and Xue Li will protect him, but the national table tennis team will not have Xue Li to protect him.
Li Dai thought of Xue Li, but he felt inexplicably sad. Xue Li was trying his best to train himself and even regarded himself as his future successor, but Li Dai chose to work as a physical coach for the National Table Tennis Team. Li Dai I don’t know if this counts as betraying my mentor.
Dai Li was full of hesitation. He finally picked up the phone and dialed Xue Li's number. However, he still didn't know how to explain to Xue Li.
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Dai Li told Xue Li that he was going to the national table tennis team. On the other end of the phone, Xue Li fell into silence.
After more than half a minute, Xue Li let out a long sigh.
Xue Li did not blame Li Dai, but encouraged him: "Xiao Li, the National Table Tennis Team is well treated and has a bright future, but the General Administration has high requirements for the National Table Tennis Team. When you get there, you must work hard and don't give in." I’m embarrassed!”
Dai Li could feel that Xue Li's words were full of melancholy, and his words were mixed with blessings for Dai Li.
In fact, Xue Li also understands that for young people like Li Dai, the national table tennis team is indeed a better place. There are better athletes there who can participate in more competitions and win more championships. For young coaches, In other words, there is also better room for development.
Athletes need competition to grow and gold medals to baptize, and the same goes for coaches. If a coach never meets good athletes and cannot participate in high-level competitions, even if he has great skills, he will remain unknown. On the contrary, even an ordinary coach will grow if he has experienced several championships. For a towering tree.
So for Li Dai, the national table tennis team will be a better stage than the national track and field team.
A week later, Dai Li's job transfer procedures were completed, and he came to Huajing again to report to the National Table Tennis Team.
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National Table Tennis Team Training Center.
Dai Li met one after another celebrities that he could usually see in front of the TV, or celebrities he saw on the TV ten or even twenty years ago. Although the older people have retired and become coaches, they have also created brilliance one after another for the national table tennis team and won one championship after another; while the young active athletes are continuing in the footsteps of their predecessors, Continue the glory.
Gu Zhizhong personally took Li Dai to introduce everyone.
"Wang Anshan, the captain of our men's table tennis team, I don't need to introduce you to him!" Gu Zhizhong pointed at Wang Anshan and said.
Dai Li nodded, of course he knew Wang Anshan. Everyone in China who pays attention to table tennis knows Wang Anshan.
The 28-year-old Wang Anshan is the leader of the current national table tennis men's team. He has been ranked first in the world for three consecutive years and is also the winner of the table tennis Super Grand Slam. He can be called the "first brother of male table tennis".
Subconsciously, Li Dai detected Wang Anshan.
"S+! The talent is indeed S+!" Although this did not exceed Dai Li's expectations, he still took a breath of air.
Wang Anshan is the first athlete with S+ level talent that Dai Li has encountered. According to the system's description, S+ level talent is enough to rule an era. In fact, Wang Anshan did this. In the past year, Wang Anshan successively won the men's singles championship at the World Championships, World Cup and ITTF World Tour Finals, showing absolute dominance. The internal vote of Wang Anshan as the team leader in Table Tennis also proves from the side that everyone recognizes Wang Anshan's strength.
"Ability value, 992! It is only 8 points short of the full score of 1,000. Among the athletes I have ever seen, Wang Anshan also has the highest ability value! If I add my explosive halo to assist, his ability Will the value break 1,000 points?"
"Advantages include comprehensive playing style, balanced offense and defense, strong backspin on the serve, multiple landing points, fast forehand speed, early hitting point, good arc control, and strong ability to continuously return short shots on both sides..." Dai Li looked at it For a few lines, I directly filtered out the advantages part, because the advantages part is too long, and it will probably take several minutes to read it all.
"Weaknesses, none! No shortcomings! There are actually no shortcomings!" Li Dai was stunned again. This was the first time he encountered an athlete whose flaws could not be detected by a detector. This means that the current Wang Anshan is a perfect athlete. athletes!
"Is this the strength of the world's top athletes! S+ level talent, near-perfect ability scores, countless advantages, but no shortcomings. Perfect! It turns out that athletes who can dominate an era are like this!"
At this time, Dai Li finally realized clearly what the strongest athlete was.